Quotes about Principal

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Votes: 4

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. Votes: 4

Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal. Votes: 3

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. Votes: 3

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. Votes: 3

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall. Votes: 3

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. Votes: 3

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. Votes: 3

The world of Ultimate Spider-Man is funny. I can't imagine a live-action film where he's Principal Coulson and dealing with some of the pranks from these guys. Votes: 3

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this. Votes: 3

You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of the one hudred and forty days of school so far." So thirty-one might be the magic number?" Principal Reed and Raven Votes: 3

When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women Votes: 3

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. Votes: 2

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth. Votes: 2

Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations. Votes: 2

A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized. Votes: 2

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man. Votes: 2

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. Votes: 2

Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land. Votes: 2

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. Votes: 2

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation. Votes: 2

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded. Votes: 2

Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say. Votes: 2

My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have not bestowed more minute attention on a subject which doubtless furnishes the true key to the problems of economics. Votes: 2

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner. Votes: 2

If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies. Votes: 2

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life. Votes: 2

One of the principal reasons why so many fail to get what they want is because they do not definitely know what they want, or because they change their wants almost every day. Know what you want and continue to want it. You will get it if you combine desire with faith. The power of desire when combined with faith becomes invincible. Votes: 2

The organizing principal for any culture is War. Votes: 1

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. Votes: 1

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset. Votes: 1

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. Votes: 1

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task. Votes: 1

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them. Votes: 1

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. Votes: 1

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. Votes: 1

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. Votes: 1

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror. Votes: 1

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was. Votes: 1

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office. Votes: 1

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. Votes: 1

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do. Votes: 1

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure. Votes: 1

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. Votes: 1

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require. Votes: 1

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. Votes: 1

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. Votes: 1

I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school. Votes: 1

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded. Votes: 1

The principal reason for the universe's poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin at speeds thousands of times faster than a jet plane. But given their distance, you'd need the patience of Job to notice much change in their appearance or position. Votes: 1

Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim. Votes: 1

Shooting is my principal pastime. Votes: 0

Rise above principal and do what's right. Votes: 0

My principal focus is finding great dramas. Votes: 0

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival. Votes: 0

The principal cause of war is war itself. Votes: 0

In matters of principal stand like a rock. Votes: 0

The principal person in a picture is light. Votes: 0

We talk on principal, but act on motivation. Votes: 0

Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy. Votes: 0

Policy may involve politics but, principle is principal. Votes: 0

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies. Votes: 0

The principal fact of life is the free mind. Votes: 0

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs. Votes: 0

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves. Votes: 0

In New York, the principal leisure activity is internal bleeding. Votes: 0

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal. Votes: 0

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. Votes: 0

Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1. Votes: 0

The spirit from which we act is the principal matter. Votes: 0

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme. Votes: 0

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men. Votes: 0

The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world. Votes: 0

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold. Votes: 0

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. Votes: 0

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Votes: 0

Through life let your principal object be the discharge of duty. Votes: 0

One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman. Votes: 0

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts. Votes: 0

With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal. Votes: 0

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions. Votes: 0

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part. Votes: 0

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education. Votes: 0

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love. Votes: 0

Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service. Votes: 0

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Votes: 0

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects. Votes: 0

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act. Votes: 0

In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself. Votes: 0

My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT. Votes: 0

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft. Votes: 0

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world. Votes: 0

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft. Votes: 0

Isn't "˜not to be bored' one of the principal goals of life? Votes: 0

The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors. Votes: 0

The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time. Votes: 0

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter. Votes: 0

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. Votes: 0

Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened! Votes: 0

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health Votes: 0

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. Votes: 0

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. Votes: 0

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age. Votes: 0

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life. Votes: 0

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal Votes: 0

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points. Votes: 0

Total evil. dang, his principal had been right all along... he really was demonspawn. Votes: 0

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art. Votes: 0

God is the source of wisdom for dream accomplishment. This is the principal principle. Votes: 0

The principal organs of the Left...has consistently been warm and welcoming toward Islamic supremacism. Votes: 0

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. Votes: 0

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation. Votes: 0

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth. Votes: 0

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence. Votes: 0

You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography. Votes: 0

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack. Votes: 0

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. Votes: 0

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve. Votes: 0

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest. Votes: 0

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't. Votes: 0

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means. Votes: 0

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. Votes: 0

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Votes: 0

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement. Votes: 0

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge. Votes: 0

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection. Votes: 0

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time. Votes: 0

People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal. Votes: 0

The Republican Party is the party of Eddie Haskell and the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Votes: 0

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Votes: 0

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery Votes: 0

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.... Votes: 0

In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education. Votes: 0

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house. Votes: 0

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets. Votes: 0

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche Votes: 0

The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole. Votes: 0

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government. Votes: 0

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators. Votes: 0

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. Votes: 0

The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object. Votes: 0

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone. Votes: 0

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. Votes: 0

The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge. Votes: 0

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object. Votes: 0

Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general. Votes: 0

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. Votes: 0

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word Votes: 0

My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength. Votes: 0

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. Votes: 0

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school. Votes: 0

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery. Votes: 0

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. Votes: 0

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. Votes: 0

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player. Votes: 0

Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006. Votes: 0

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was. Votes: 0

We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Votes: 0

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. Votes: 0

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. Votes: 0

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence. Votes: 0

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders. Votes: 0

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Votes: 0

The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes. Votes: 0

I just directed another picture called 'American Dream' with Nick Stahl. Just finished shooting principal photography right before I started ['Lincoln']. Votes: 0

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. Votes: 0

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. Votes: 0

In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully. Votes: 0

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system. Votes: 0

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans. Votes: 0

It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process. Votes: 0

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month. Votes: 0

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one. Votes: 0

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. Votes: 0

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? Votes: 0

Enlightened spirit of the age is not the principal of life but a mirror that lets us see life through it's view. Votes: 0

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being. Votes: 0

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations. Votes: 0

I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school. Votes: 0

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy. Votes: 0

the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods. Votes: 0

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic. Votes: 0

One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it. Votes: 0

The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to. Votes: 0

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade. Votes: 0

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. Votes: 0

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal. Votes: 0

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support. Votes: 0

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. Votes: 0

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. Votes: 0

You show me a school with a principal behind the desk, and I'll show you a school without principal leadership. (Quoting Baruti Kafele) Votes: 0

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool. Votes: 0

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution. Votes: 0

From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait. Votes: 0

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern. Votes: 0

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired. Votes: 0

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement. Votes: 0

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude. Votes: 0

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith. Votes: 0

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge. Votes: 0

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university. Votes: 0

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God. Votes: 0

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile. Votes: 0

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for. Votes: 0

The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body. Votes: 0

The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print. Votes: 0

The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world. Votes: 0

Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal! Votes: 0

That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things. Votes: 0

Presidents are not only the country's principal policy chief, shaping the nation's domestic and foreign agendas, but also the most visible example of our values. Votes: 0

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria. Votes: 0

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom. Votes: 0

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals. Votes: 0

The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness. Votes: 0

The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so. Votes: 0

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy. Votes: 0

The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one. Votes: 0

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. Votes: 0

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us. Votes: 0

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there. Votes: 0

My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone. Votes: 0

We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words. Votes: 0

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies. Votes: 0

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it. Votes: 0

There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and the yoga of mysticism. Votes: 0

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them. Votes: 0

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence. Votes: 0

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life. Votes: 0

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. Votes: 0

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration. Votes: 0

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced. Votes: 0

The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully. Votes: 0

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth? Votes: 0

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet. Votes: 0

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure) Votes: 0

I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines. Votes: 0

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time. Votes: 0

Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side. Votes: 0

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise. Votes: 0

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological. Votes: 0

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism. Votes: 0

Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour. Votes: 0

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will. Votes: 0

In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available. Votes: 0

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years. Votes: 0

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor ... Votes: 0

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity. Votes: 0

The Lord's authorized servants repeatedly teach that one of the principal purposes of our mortal existence is to be spiritually changed and transformed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it. Votes: 0

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character. Votes: 0

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore. Votes: 0

You in the back," said the principal. "Don't think you can hide. Tell me. What would you like to be?" "Dangerous," said the hidden girl, without a second's hesitation. Votes: 0

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.' Votes: 0

If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal users of Viagra were young black men, using Viagra would land you time behind bars. Votes: 0

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth. Votes: 0

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career. Votes: 0

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny. Votes: 0

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns. Votes: 0

One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty. Votes: 0

The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study. Votes: 0

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror Votes: 0

P.S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time. Votes: 0

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician. Votes: 0

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life. Votes: 0

Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society. Votes: 0

Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal. Votes: 0

The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them. Votes: 0

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. Votes: 0

[John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal social orders and, equally important, an independent executive. Votes: 0

What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love. Votes: 0

The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally. Votes: 0

The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity. Votes: 0

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean. Votes: 0

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow. Votes: 0

The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness. Votes: 0

It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves. Votes: 0

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty. Votes: 0

The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world. Votes: 0

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition. Votes: 0

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred. Votes: 0

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. Votes: 0

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books. Votes: 0

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously. Votes: 0

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good. Votes: 0

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. Votes: 0

The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision. Votes: 0

The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of government. Votes: 0

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits. Votes: 0

In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it. Votes: 0

The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good. Votes: 0

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness. Votes: 0

The prominence given to our nation as a rainbow country has its genesis and credence in our 'Calaloo culture' of which our East Indian brothers and sisters have played a principal part. Votes: 0

All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected. Votes: 0

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted Votes: 0

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted. Votes: 0

Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire. Votes: 0

In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man. Votes: 0

So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. Votes: 0

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not. Votes: 0

Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour. Votes: 0

Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who came after him, regardless of one's chosen instrument. Votes: 0

The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object. Votes: 0

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite. Votes: 0

The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages. Votes: 0

Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on. Votes: 0

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects. Votes: 0

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town. Votes: 0

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years. Votes: 0

I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids. Votes: 0

Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension through other dimensions, position through other positions that oppose them. That is why I regard relationship as the principal thing. Votes: 0

It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer. Votes: 0

One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values. Votes: 0

The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense organ, and "seeing" supplies the key metaphors for reporting the perception. Votes: 0

A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized as the principal cultural development of our age. Votes: 0

I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something. Votes: 0

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire. Votes: 0

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo. Votes: 0

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school. Votes: 0

Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding may in fact hinder it; our instrument becomes our burden Votes: 0

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader. Votes: 0

It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences. Votes: 0

In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions. Votes: 0

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight. Votes: 0

The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism. Votes: 0

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing. Votes: 0

The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher. Votes: 0

I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects the balance of the democratic process. The fairness of the democratic process. Votes: 0

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli. Votes: 0

The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates. Votes: 0

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look. Votes: 0

So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them nationalist fervor about a country whose principal export is citizens who can swim. Votes: 0

Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be. Votes: 0

You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is. Votes: 0

My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me. Votes: 0

Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it. Votes: 0

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts. Votes: 0

It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks. Votes: 0

Wisdom is the ability to make wise decisions and pursue them. The bible said wisdom is the principal thing. This means it's the number one thing ever that you cannot bypass and expect to succeed! Votes: 0

The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture. Votes: 0

The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil. Votes: 0

There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks. Votes: 0

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law. Votes: 0

No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God's authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply. Votes: 0

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours. Votes: 0

Wisdom is the ability to make wise decisions and pursue them. The bible said "wisdom is the principal thing". This means it's the number one thing ever that you cannot bypass and expect to succeed! Votes: 0

While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection. Votes: 0

Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset Votes: 0

Trump's principal policies make clear what's going to happen. This gives an opportunity. Right now it's going to take hard work, but it's possible that there could be a real revival of the labor movement. Votes: 0

The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil. Votes: 0